Setting intra-block copy virtual buffer based on virtual pipeline data unit

ABSTRACT

A method of video processing is described. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, whether or how to reset reference sample values of a reference region of the video picture used for predicting the current video block according to a rule; and performing the conversion based on the determining.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 17/702,318, filed on Mar. 23, 2022, which is a continuation of International Patent Application No. PCT/CN2020/116959, filed on Sep. 23, 2020, which claims the priority to and benefit of International Patent Application No. PCT/CN2019/107380, filed on Sep. 23, 2019. All the aforementioned patent applications are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to video coding and decoding techniques, devices and systems.

BACKGROUND

In spite of the advances in video compression, digital video still accounts for the largest bandwidth use on the internet and other digital communication networks. As the number of connected user devices capable of receiving and displaying video increases, it is expected that the bandwidth demand for digital video usage will continue to grow.

SUMMARY

Devices, systems and methods related to digital video coding and decoding, and specifically, to general virtual buffers for intra block copy (IBC). The described methods may be applied to both the existing video coding standards (e.g., High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)) and future video coding standards or video codecs.

In one representative aspect, the disclosed technology may be used to provide a method for video processing. This method includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, whether or how to reset reference sample values of a reference region of the video picture used for predicting the current video block according to a rule; and performing the conversion based on the determining.

In another example aspect, a method of video processing is disclosed. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a current video region of a video picture of a video comprising a luma block and corresponding one or more chroma blocks and a coded representation of the video, whether and/or how to mark one or more reference samples of a reference region of the video picture used for predicting the current video region as unavailable based on a rule that is independent of a position of the one or more chroma blocks; and performing the conversion based on the determining.

In yet another aspect, another method of video processing is disclosed. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, whether and/or how to mark one or more reference samples of a reference region of the video picture used for predicting the current video block based on a rule that is dependent on a position of a most recently processed virtual pipeline data unit (VPDU) and a size of a VPDU; and performing the conversion based on the determining.

In another example aspect, a method of video processing is disclosed. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, a constraint on a block vector that is used for predicting the current video block according to a rule; and performing the conversion based on the determining, wherein the block vector indicates a displacement between the current video block and a reference region in the video picture used for predictively coding the current video block, and wherein the rule specifies that the block vector crossing a coding tree unit (CTU) row of the video picture is disallowed.

In another example aspect, a method of video processing is disclosed. The method includes making a decision, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, based on a rule, whether to apply a deblocking filter to at least some samples of an edge of the current video block with another block across a coding tree unit (CTU) row of the video picture; and performing the conversion based on the determining; wherein the current video block is coded using an intra block copy (IBC) mode in which a prediction of the current video block is derived based on sample values from a video slice of the current video block.

In another example aspect, a method of video processing is disclosed. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, an applicability of a subpicture prediction to generate a prediction block for the current video block using at least one of a first subpicture or a second subpicture of the video picture according to a rule; and performing the conversion based on the determining.

In another example aspect, a method of video processing is disclosed. The method includes performing a conversion between a current video block of a chroma component of a video and a coded representation of the video according to a rule, wherein the rule specifies that a smallest index of a chroma quantization parameter (QP) table used for the conversion is independent of a bit depth of samples of the chroma component.

In yet another representative aspect, the above-described method is embodied in the form of processor-executable code and stored in a computer-readable program medium.

In yet another representative aspect, a device that is configured or operable to perform the above-described method is disclosed. The device may include a processor that is programmed to implement this method.

In yet another representative aspect, a video decoder apparatus may implement a method as described herein.

The above and other aspects and features of the disclosed technology are described in greater detail in the drawings, the description and the claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows an example of current picture referencing.

FIG. 2 shows an example a dynamic reference area in JVET-M0407.

FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of a decoding flow with reshaping.

FIGS. 4A, 4B and 4C show flowcharts of example methods for video processing.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an example of a hardware platform for implementing a visual media decoding or a visual media encoding technique described in the present disclosure.

FIG. 6 shows examples of reference blocks crossing VPDU column and VPDU row.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram of an example video processing system in which disclosed techniques may be implemented.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram that illustrates an example video coding system.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram that illustrates an encoder in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram that illustrates a decoder in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 11A to 11G show example flowcharts of a video processing method based on some implementations of the disclosed technology.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Embodiments of the disclosed technology may be applied to existing video coding standards (e.g., HEVC, H.265) and future standards to improve compression performance. Section headings are used in the present disclosure to improve readability of the description and do not in any way limit the discussion or the embodiments (and/or implementations) to the respective sections only.

2 Video Coding Introduction

Due to the increasing demand of higher resolution video, video coding methods and techniques are ubiquitous in modern technology. Video codecs typically include an electronic circuit or software that compresses or decompresses digital video, and are continually being improved to provide higher coding efficiency. A video codec converts uncompressed video to a compressed format or vice versa. There are complex relationships between the video quality, the amount of data used to represent the video (determined by the bit rate), the complexity of the encoding and decoding algorithms, sensitivity to data losses and errors, ease of editing, random access, and end-to-end delay (latency). The compressed format usually conforms to a standard video compression specification, e.g., the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard (also known as H.265 or MPEG-H Part 2), the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard to be finalized, or other current and/or future video coding standards.

Video coding standards have evolved primarily through the development of the well-known International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards. The ITU-T produced H.261 and H.263, ISO/IEC produced Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)-1 and MPEG-4 Visual, and the two organizations jointly produced the H.262/MPEG-2 Video and H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and H.265/HEVC standards. Since H.262, the video coding standards are based on the hybrid video coding structure wherein temporal prediction plus transform coding are utilized. To explore the future video coding technologies beyond HEVC, Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET) was founded by Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and MPEG jointly in 2015. Since then, many new methods have been adopted by JVET and put into the reference software named Joint Exploration Model (JEM). In April 2018, the Joint Video Expert Team (JVET) between VCEG (Q6/16) and ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC1) SC29/WG11 (MPEG) was created to work on the VVC standard targeting at 50% bitrate reduction compared to HEVC.

2.1 Inter Prediction in HEVC/H.265

Each inter-predicted prediction unit (PU) has motion parameters for one or two reference picture lists. Motion parameters include a motion vector and a reference picture index. Usage of one of the two reference picture lists may also be signaled using inter_pred_idc. Motion vectors may be explicitly coded as deltas relative to predictors.

When a coding unit (CU) is coded with skip mode, one PU is associated with the CU, and there are no significant residual coefficients, no coded motion vector delta or reference picture index. A merge mode is specified whereby the motion parameters for the current PU are obtained from neighboring PUs, including spatial and temporal candidates. The merge mode can be applied to any inter-predicted PU, not only for skip mode. The alternative to merge mode is the explicit transmission of motion parameters, where motion vector (to be more precise, motion vector differences (MVD) compared to a motion vector predictor), corresponding reference picture index for each reference picture list and reference picture list usage are signaled explicitly per each PU. Such a mode is named advanced motion vector prediction (AMVP) in this disclosure.

When signaling indicates that one of the two reference picture lists is to be used, the PU is produced from one block of samples. This is referred to as ‘uni-prediction’. Uni-prediction is available both for P-slices and B-slices.

When signaling indicates that both of the reference picture lists are to be used, the PU is produced from two blocks of samples. This is referred to as ‘bi-prediction’. Bi-prediction is available for B-slices only.

The following text provides the details on the inter prediction modes specified in HEVC. The description will start with the merge mode.

2.2 Current Picture Referencing

Current Picture Referencing (CPR), or once named as Intra Block Copy (IBC) has been adopted in HEVC Screen Content Coding extensions (HEVC-SCC) and the current VVC test model (VTM) 3.0. IBC extends the concept of motion compensation from inter-frame coding to intra-frame coding. As demonstrated in FIG. 1 , the current block is predicted by a reference block in the same picture when CPR is applied. The samples in the reference block must have been already reconstructed before the current block is coded or decoded. Although CPR is not so efficient for most camera-captured sequences, it shows significant coding gains for screen content. The reason is that there are lots of repeating patterns, such as icons and text characters in a screen content picture. CPR can remove the redundancy between these repeating patterns effectively. In HEVC-SCC, an inter-coded coding unit (CU) can apply CPR if it chooses the current picture as its reference picture. The motion vector (MV) is renamed as block vector (BV) in this case, and a BV always has an integer-pixel precision. To be compatible with main profile HEVC, the current picture is marked as a “long-term” reference picture in the Decoded Picture Buffer (DPB). It should be noted that similarly, in multiple view/three dimensional (3D) video coding standards, the inter-view reference picture is also marked as a “long-term” reference picture.

Following a BV to find its reference block, the prediction can be generated by copying the reference block. The residual can be got by subtracting the reference pixels from the original signals. Then transform and quantization can be applied as in other coding modes.

However, when a reference block is outside of the picture, or overlaps with the current block, or outside of the reconstructed area, or outside of the valid area restricted by some constrains, part or all pixel values are not defined. Basically, there are two solutions to handle such a problem. One is to disallow such a situation, e.g., in bitstream conformance. The other is to apply padding for those undefined pixel values. The following sub-sessions describe the solutions in detail.

2.3 CPR in HEVC Screen Content Coding Extensions

In the screen content coding extensions of HEVC, when a block uses current picture as reference, it should guarantee that the whole reference block is within the available reconstructed area, as indicated in the following spec text:

The variables offsetX and offsetY are derived as follows:

offsetX=(ChromaArrayType==0)?0:(mvCLX[0]& 0x7?2:0)  (8-104)

offsetY=(ChromaArrayType==0)?0:(mvCLX[1]& 0x7?2:0)  (8-105)

It is a requirement of bitstream conformance that when the reference picture is the current picture, the luma motion vector mvLX shall obey the following constraints:

-   -   When the derivation process for z-scan order block availability         as specified in clause 6.4.1 is invoked with (xCurr, yCurr) set         equal to (xCb, yCb) and the neighbouring luma location (xNbY,         yNbY) set equal to (xPb+(mvLX[0]>>2)−offsetX,         yPb+(mvLX[1]>>2)−offsetY) as inputs, the output shall be equal         to TRUE.     -   When the derivation process for z-scan order block availability         as specified in clause 6.4.1 is invoked with (xCurr, yCurr) set         equal to (xCb, yCb) and the neighbouring luma location (xNbY,         yNbY) set equal to (xPb+(mvLX[0]>>2)+nPbW−1+offsetX,         yPb+(mvLX[1]>>2)+nPbH−1+offsetY) as inputs, the output shall be         equal to TRUE.     -   One or both of the following conditions shall be true:     -   The value of (mvLX[0]>>2)+nPbW+xB1+offsetX is less than or equal         to 0.     -   The value of (mvLX[1]>>2)+nPbH+yB1+offsetY is less than or equal         to 0.     -   The following condition shall be true:

(xPb+(mvLX[0]>>2)+nPbSw−1+offsetX)/CtbSizeY−xCb/CtbSizeY<=yCb/CtbSizeY−(yPb+(mvLX[1]>>2)+nPbSh−1+offsetY)/CtbSizeY  (8-106)

Thus, the case that the reference block overlaps with the current block or the reference block is outside of the picture will not happen. There is no need to pad the reference or prediction block.

2.4 CPR/IBC in VVC Test Model

In the current VVC test model, i.e., VTM-3.0 design, the whole reference block should be with the current coding tree unit (CTU) and does not overlap with the current block. Thus, there is no need to pad the reference or prediction block.

When dual tree is enabled, the partition structure may be different from luma to chroma CTUs. Therefore, for the 4:2:0 colour format, one chroma block (e.g., CU) may correspond to one collocated luma region which have been split to multiple luma CUs.

The chroma block could only be coded with the CPR mode when the following conditions shall be true:

-   -   (1) each of the luma CU within the collocated luma block shall         be coded with CPR mode     -   (2) each of the luma 4×4 block’ BV is firstly converted to a         chroma block's BV and the chroma block's BV is a valid BV.

If any of the two condition is false, the chroma block shall not be coded with CPR mode.

It is noted that the definition of ‘valid BV’ has the following constraints:

-   -   (1) all samples within the reference block identified by a BV         shall be within the restricted search range (e.g., shall be         within the same CTU in current VVC design).     -   (2) all samples within the reference block identified by a BV         have been reconstructed.

2.5 CPR/IBC in JVET-L0297/JVET-M0407/JVET-M0408

In VTM3.0, the reference area for CPR/IBC is restricted to the current CTU, which is up to 128×128. JVET-L0297/JVET-M0407/JVET-M0408 present methods to dynamically change the reference area to reuse memory to store reference samples for CPR/IBC so that a CPR/IBC block can have more reference candidate while the reference buffer for CPR/IBC can be kept or reduced from one CTU.

FIG. 2 shows a method, where a block is of 64×64 and a CTU contains 4 64×64 blocks. When coding a 64×64 blocks, previous 3 64×64 blocks can be used as reference. By doing so, a decoder just needs to store 4 64×64 blocks to support CPR/IBC. The above method was adopted into VTM4.0.

Suppose that the current luma CU's position relative to the upper-left corner of the picture is (x, y) and block vector is (BVx, BVy). In the current design, if the BV is valid can be told by that the luma position ((x+BVx)>>6<<6+(1<<7), (y+BVy)>>6<<6) has not been reconstructed and ((x+BVx)>>6<<6+(1<<7), (y+BVy)>>6<<6) is not equal to (x>>6<<6, y>>6<<6).

2.6 Virtual IBC Buffer Proposed in JVET-01170

A virtual buffer concept is introduced to help describing the reference region for IBC prediction mode. For CTU size being ctbSize, we denote wIbcBuf=128*128/ctbSize and define a virtual IBC buffer, ibcBuf, with width being wIbcBuf and height being ctbSize. Thus,

-   -   For CTU size being 128×128, the size of ibcBuf is also 128×128.     -   For CTU size being 64×64, the size of ibcBuf is 256×64.     -   For CTU size being 32×32, the size of ibcBuf is 512×32.

It is noted that VPDU width and height are min(ctbSize, 64). We denote Wv=min(ctbSize, 64).

The virtual IBC buffer, ibcBuf is maintained as follows.

-   -   (1) At the beginning of decoding each CTU row, refresh the whole         ibcBuf with value (−1).     -   (2) At the beginning of decoding a VPDU (xVPDU, yVPDU) relative         to the top-left corner of the picture, set the ibcBuf[x][y]=−1,         with x=xVPDU % wIbcBuf, xVPDU % wIbcBuf+Wv−1; y=yVPDU % ctbSize,         yVPDU % ctbSize+Wv−1.     -   (3) After decoding a CU contains (x, y) relative to the top-left         of the picture, set ibcBuf[x % wIbcBuf][y %         ctbSize]=recSample[x][y]

So a bitstream constrain can be simply described as:

-   -   It is a requirement of bitstream conformance that for a by,         ibcBuf[(x+bv[0]) % wlbcBuf] [(y+bv[1]) % ctbSize] shall not be         equal to −1.

With the concept of IBC reference buffer, it also simplifies the text for the decoding process by avoid reference to the inter interpolation and motion compensation process, including subblock process.

2.7 VPDU

Virtual pipeline data units (VPDUs) are defined as non-overlapping units in a picture. In hardware decoders, successive VPDUs are processed by multiple pipeline stages at the same time. The VPDU size is roughly proportional to the buffer size in most pipeline stages, so it is important to keep the VPDU size small. In most hardware decoders, the VPDU size can be set to maximum transform block (TB) size. However, in VVC, ternary tree (TT) and binary tree (BT) partition may lead to the increasing of VPDUs size.

In order to keep the VPDU size as 64×64 luma samples, the following normative partition restrictions (with syntax signaling modification) are applied in VTM5:

-   -   TT split is not allowed for a CU with either width or height, or         both width and height equal to 128.     -   For a 128×N CU with N≤64 (i.e., width equal to 128 and height         smaller than 128), horizontal BT is not allowed.     -   For an N×128 CU with N≤64 (i.e., height equal to 128 and width         smaller than 128), vertical BT is not allowed.

In VVC, generally it is agreed that the width and height of a VPDU is min(64, CtbSizeY) in luma samples. So for coding tree block (CTB)/CTU size being 64×64, 128×128 or 256×256, VPDU size is 64×64. For CTB/CTU size being 32×32, VPDU size is 32×32.

2.8 Buffer Management and Block Vector Coding for Intra Block Copy

Various IBC buffer features and details for its corresponding management are described in PCT/CN2019/093552, which is incorporated by reference.

2.9 In-Loop Reshaping (ILR) in JVET-M0427

The basic idea of in-loop reshaping (ILR) is to convert the original (in the first domain) signal (prediction/reconstruction signal) to a second domain (reshaped domain).

The in-loop luma reshaper is implemented as a pair of look-up tables (LUTs), but only one of the two LUTs need to be signaled as the other one can be computed from the signaled LUT. Each LUT is a one-dimensional, 10-bit, 1024-entry mapping table (1D-LUT). One LUT is a forward LUT, FwdLUT, that maps input luma code values Y_(i) to altered values Y_(r):Y_(r)=FwdLUT[Y_(i)]. The other LUT is an inverse LUT, InvLUT, that maps altered code values Y_(r) to Ŷ_(i): Ŷ_(i)=InvLUT[Y_(r)]. (Ŷ_(i) represents the reconstruction values of Y_(i)).

2.9.1 PWL Model

Conceptually, piece-wise linear (PWL) is implemented in the following way:

Let x1, x2 be two input pivot points, and y1, y2 be their corresponding output pivot points for one piece. The output value y for any input value x between x1 and x2 can be interpolated by the following equation:

y=((y2−y1)/(x2−x1))*(x−x1)+y1

In fixed point implementation, the equation can be rewritten as:

y=((m*x+2FP_PREC-1)>>>FP_PREC)+c

Herein, m is scalar, c is an offset, and FP_PREC is a constant value to specify the precision.

Note that in CE-12 software, the PWL model is used to precompute the 1024-entry FwdLUT and InvLUT mapping tables; but the PWL model also allows implementations to calculate identical mapping values on-the-fly without pre-computing the LUTs.

2.9.2 Test CE12-2 2.9.2.1 Luma Reshaping

Test 2 of the in-loop luma reshaping (i.e., CE12-2 in the proposal) provides a lower complexity pipeline that also eliminates decoding latency for block-wise intra prediction in inter slice reconstruction. Intra prediction is performed in reshaped domain for both inter and intra slices.

Intra prediction is always performed in reshaped domain regardless of slice type. With such arrangement, intra prediction can start immediately after previous TU reconstruction is done. Such arrangement can also provide a unified process for intra mode instead of being slice dependent. FIG. 3 shows the block diagram of the CE12-2 decoding process based on mode.

CE12-2 also tests 16-piece piece-wise linear (PWL) models for luma and chroma residue scaling instead of the 32-piece PWL models of CE12-1.

Inter slice reconstruction with in-loop luma reshaper in CE12-2 (lighter shaded blocks indicate signal in reshaped domain: luma residue; intra luma predicted; and intra luma reconstructed)

2.9.2.2 Luma-Dependent Chroma Residue Scaling

Luma-dependent chroma residue scaling is a multiplicative process implemented with fixed-point integer operation. Chroma residue scaling compensates for luma signal interaction with the chroma signal. Chroma residue scaling is applied at the TU level. More specifically, the following applies:

-   -   For intra, the reconstructed luma is averaged.     -   For inter, the prediction luma is averaged.

The average is used to identify an index in a PWL model. The index identifies a scaling factor cScaleInv. The chroma residual is multiplied by that number.

It is noted that the chroma scaling factor is calculated from forward-mapped predicted luma values rather than reconstructed luma values.

2.9.2.3 Signaling of ILR Side Information

The parameters are (currently) sent in the tile group header (similar to adaptive loop filter (ALF)). These reportedly take 40-100 bits.

The following spec is based on version 9 of JVET-L1001. The added syntax is prefixed with “++”.

In 7.3.2.1 Sequence parameter set RBSP syntax

Descriptor seq_parameter_set_rbsp( ) {  sps_seq_parameter_set_id ue(v) ...   sps_triangle_enabled_flag u(1)  sps_ladf_enabled_flag u(1)  if ( sps_ladf_enabled_flag ) { sps_num_ladf_intervals_minus2 u(2) sps_ladf_lowest_interval_qp_offset se(v) for( i = 0; i < sps_num_ladf_intervals_minus2 + 1; i++ ) {  sps_ladf_qp_offset[ i ] se(v)  sps_ladf_delta_threshold_minus1[ i ] ue(v) }  } ++ sps_reshaper_enabled_flag u(1)  rbsp_trailing_bits( ) }

In 7.3.3.1 General Tile Group Header Syntax

Descriptor tile_group_header( ) { ...  if( num_tiles_in_tile_group_minus1 > 0 ) { offset_len_minus1 ue(v) for( i = 0; i < num_tiles_in_tile_group_minus1; i++ )  entry_point_offset_minus1[ i ] u(v)  } ++ if ( sps_reshaper_enabled_flag ) { ++  tile_group_reshaper_model_present_flag u(1) ++  if ( tile_group_reshaper_model_present_flag ) ++   tile_group_reshaper_model ( ) ++  tile_group_reshaper_enable_flag u(1) ++  if ( tile_group_reshaper_enable_flag && (!( qtbtt_dual_tree_intra_flag && tile_group_type == I ) ) ) ++   tile_group_reshaper_chr oma_residual_scale_flag u(1) ++ }  byte_alignment( ) } Add a new syntax table tile group reshaper model:

Descriptor ++ tile_group_reshaper_model ( ) { ++  reshaper_model_min_bin_idx ue(v) ++  reshaper_model_delta_max_bin_idx ue(v) ++  reshaper_model_bin_delta_abs_cw_prec_minus1 ue(v) ++  for ( i = reshaper_model_min_bin_idx; i <= reshaper_model_max_bin_idx; i++ ) { ++   reshape_model_bin_delta_abs_CW [ i ] u(v) ++   if ( reshaper_model_bin_delta_abs_CW[ i ] ) > 0 ) ++    reshaper_model_bin_delta_sign_CW_flag[ i ] u(1) ++  } ++ } ++In General sequence parameter set RBSP semantics, add the following semantics: sps_reshaper_enabled_flag equal to 1 specifies that reshaper is used in the coded video sequence (CVS). sps_reshaper_enabled_flag equal to 0 specifies that reshaper is not used in the CVS. ++In tile group header syntax, add the following semantics tile_group_reshaper_model_present_flag equal to 1 specifies tile_group_reshaper_model( ) is present in tile group header. tile_group_reshaper_model_present_flag equal to 0 specifies tile_group_reshaper_model( ) is not present in tile group header. When tile_group_reshaper_model_present_flag is not present, it is inferred to be equal to 0. tile_group_reshaper_enabled_flag equal to 1 specifies that reshaper is enabled for the current tile group. tile_group_reshaper_enabled_flag equal to 0 specifies that reshaper is not enabled for the current tile group. When tile_group_reshaper_enable_flag is not present, it is inferred to be equal to 0. tile_group_reshaper_chroma_residual_scale_flag equal to 1 specifies that chroma residual scaling is enabled for the current tile group. tile_group_reshaper_chroma_residual_scale_flag equal to 0 specifies that chroma residual scaling is not enabled for the current tile group. When tile_group_reshaper_chroma_residual_scale_flag is not present, it is inferred to be equal to 0. ++Add tile_group_reshaper_model( ) syntax reshape_model_min_bin_idx specifies the minimum bin (or piece) index to be used in the reshaper construction process. The value of reshape_model_min_bin_idx shall be in the range of 0 to MaxBinIdx, inclusive. The value of MaxBinIdx shall be equal to 15. reshape_modeldeltamax_bin_idx specifies the maximum allowed bin (or piece) index MaxBinIdx minus the maximum bin index to be used in the reshaper construction process. The value of reshape_model_max_bin_idx is set equal to MaxBinIdx−reshape_model_delta_max_bin_idx. reshaper_model_bin_delta_abs_cw_prec_minus1 plus 1 specifies the number of bits used for the representation of the syntax reshape_model_bin_delta_abs_CW[i]. reshape_model_bin_delta_abs_CW[i] specifies the absolute delta codeword value for the ith bin. reshaper_model_bin_defta_sign_CW_flag[i] specifies the sign of reshape_model_bin_delta_abs_CW[i] as follows:

-   -   If reshape_model_bin_delta_sign_CW_flag[i] is equal to 0, the         corresponding variable RspDeltaCW[i] is a positive value.     -   Otherwise (reshape_model_bin_delta_sign_CW_flag[i] is not equal         to 0), the corresponding variable RspDeltaCW[i] is a negative         value.         When reshape_model_bin_delta_sign_CW_flag[i] is not present, it         is inferred to be equal to 0.         The variable RspDeltaCW[i] (1 2*reshape_model_bin_delta_sign_CW         [i])*reshape_model_bin_delta_abs_CW [i];         The variable RspCW[i] is derived as following steps:         The variable OrgCW is set equal to (1<<BitDepthy)/(MaxBinIdx+1).     -   If reshaper_model_min_bin_idx<=i<=reshaper_model_max_bin_idx         -   RspCW[i]=OrgCW+RspDeltaCW[i].     -   Otherwise, RspCW[i]=0.         The value of RspCW[i] shall be in the range of 32 to 2*OrgCW−1         if the value of BitDepthy is equal to 10.         The variables InputPivot[i] with i in the range of 0 to         MaxBinIdx+1, inclusive are derived as follows     -   InputPivot[i]=i*OrgCW         The variable ReshapePivot[i] with i in the range of 0 to         MaxBinIdx+1, inclusive, the variable ScaleCoef[i] and         InvScaleCoeff[i] with i in the range of 0 to MaxBinIdx,         inclusive, are derived as follows:

shiftY = 14 ReshapePivot[ 0 ] = 0; for( i = 0; i <= MaxBinIdx ; i++) {  ReshapePivot[ i + 1 ] = ReshapePivot[ i ] + RspCW[ i ]   ScaleCoef[ i ] = ( RspCW[ i ] * (1 << shiftY) + (1 << (Log2(OrgCW) − 1))) >> (Log2(OrgCW))    if ( RspCW[ i ] == 0 )     InvScaleCoeff[ i ] = 0    else     InvScaleCoeff[ i ] = OrgCW * (1 << shiftY) / RspCW[ i ]   } The variable ChromaScaleCoef[i] with i in the range of 0 to MaxBinIdx, inclusive, are derived as follows:

-   -   ChromaResidualScaleLut[64]={16384, 16384, 16384, 16384, 16384,         16384, 16384, 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192, 5461, 5461, 5461, 5461,         4096, 4096, 4096, 4096, 3277, 3277, 3277, 3277, 2731, 2731,         2731, 2731, 2341, 2341, 2341, 2048, 2048, 2048, 1820, 1820,         1820, 1638, 1638, 1638, 1638, 1489, 1489, 1489, 1489, 1365,         1365, 1365, 1365, 1260, 1260, 1260, 1260, 1170, 1170, 1170,         1170, 1092, 1092, 1092, 1092, 1024};     -   shiftC=11         -   if (RspCW[ i]==0)             -   ChromaScaleCoef[i]=(1<<shiftC)         -   Otherwise (RspCW[i]!=0),             ChromaScaleCoef[i]=ChromaResidualScaleLut[RspCW[i]>>1]

2.9.2.4 Usage of ILR

At the encoder side, each picture (or tile group) is firstly converted to the reshaped domain. And all the coding process is performed in the reshaped domain. For intra prediction, the neighboring block is in the reshaped domain; for inter prediction, the reference blocks (generated from the original domain from decoded picture buffer) are firstly converted to the reshaped domain. Then the residual are generated and coded to the bitstream.

After the whole picture (or tile group) finishes encoding/decoding, samples in the reshaped domain are converted to the original domain, then deblocking filter and other filters are applied.

Forward reshaping to the prediction signal is disabled for the following cases:

-   -   Current block is intra-coded     -   Current block is coded as CPR (current picture referencing,         a.k.a., intra block copy, IBC)     -   Current block is coded as combined inter-intra mode (CIIP) and         the forward reshaping is disabled for the intra prediction block

3 Drawbacks of Existing Implementations

In the current design of IBC virtual buffer, some problems exist.

-   -   (1) How to maintain IBC virtual buffer when CTU size is larger         than 128×128 is not defined.     -   (2) The relationship between virtual buffer size and size of         reference samples is not clear.

(3) Line buffer for IBC mode and BV for CTU row may be reduced.

(4) Subpicture might be too restricted.

(5) Chroma QP table may not be designed in a right way.

4 Example Methods for General Virtual Buffers for IBC

Denote the width and height of a VPDU by vSize, e.g., vSize=min(64, ctbSizeY), where ctbSizeY is the luma CTB/CTU width/height.

Embodiments of the presently disclosed technology overcome the drawbacks of existing implementations, thereby providing video coding with higher coding efficiencies. The methods for general virtual buffers for IBC, based on the disclosed technology, may enhance both existing and future video coding standards, is elucidated in the following examples described for various implementations. The examples of the disclosed technology provided below explain general concepts, and are not meant to be interpreted as limiting. In an example, unless explicitly indicated to the contrary, the various features described in these examples may be combined.

IBC buffer related

-   -   1. The size of IBC virtual buffer (e.g., which is used to decide         whether a block vector or a mapped sample's validity) may depend         on VPDU size, CTB/CTU size.         -   a. In one example, the width times height of the virtual             buffer may be fixed, however, the width and/height of the             virtual buffer may depend on VPDU size and/or CTB/CTU size.         -   b. In one example, the height of the virtual buffer may be             equal to the height of CTB/CTU.             -   i. Alternatively, furthermore, the width of the virtual                 buffer may be set to (IBC virtual buffer size/height of                 CTB).         -   c. In one example, the width of the virtual buffer may be             equal to the width of CTB/CTU.         -   d. In one example, the width of the virtual buffer may be             one or multiple times of VPDU width         -   e. In one example, the height of the virtual buffer may be             one or multiple times of VPDU height     -   2. It is proposed to allocate a larger IBC virtual buffer size         compared to the required memory size for IBC BV searching area.         -   a. In one example, the IBC virtual buffer size may be larger             than the total size of VPDU memory used for IBC.             -   i. In one example, one more CTU may be allocated to IBC                 virtual buffer.         -   b. In one example, the width of the IBC virtual buffer size             may be (128*128/ctbSizeY+ctbSizeY).         -   c. In one example, the width of the IBC virtual buffer size             may be (128*128/ctbSizeY+ctbSizeY) and the height of the IBC             virtual buffer size may be ctbSizeY.     -   3. The reference block for an IBC block may be constrained to be         fully within a certain VPDU row or VPDU column         -   a. In one example, the reference block may be disallowed to             cross different VPDU rows.         -   b. In one example, the reference block may be disallowed to             cross different VPDU columns.         -   c. In one example, the above VPDU row or column may be             relative to the picture.         -   d. In one example, the above VPDU row or column may be             relative to the IBC virtual buffer.         -   e. Alternatively, furthermore, the above methods may be             invoked when the reference block pointed by a BV cross two             or more CTUs/CTBs.     -   4. The reference block for an IBC block may cross multiple         VPDUs/cross different VPDU rows/VPDU columns. However,         additional operations may be required to fill in some prediction         values in the reference block.         -   a. In one example, some default values may be utilized to             fill in some prediction values.     -   5. A range constrain may be applied to block vectors (BVs)         and/or block vector differences (BVD) used in IBC mode.         -   a. In one example, the allowed range of BV/BVDs may depend             on the location of current IBC coded block, such as             coordinators relative to the CTU/CTB covering current block.         -   b. In one example, block vectors may be constrained in the             range of [−2^(n),2^(n)−1]         -   c. In one example, block vector differences after precision             conversion may be constrained in the range of             [−2^(n),2^(n)−1]         -   d. In one example, block vector differences after precision             conversion may be constrained in the range of             [−2^(n)+1,2^(n)−1]         -   e. In one example, block vector differences signalled in the             bitstreams may be constrained in the range of             [−2^(n),2^(n)−1]         -   f. In one example, block vector differences signalled in the             bitstreams may be constrained in the range of             [−2^(n)+1,2^(n)−1]         -   g. In one example, m is set to 18 or 17 or 15.         -   h. In one example, n is set to 17 or 16 or 14.         -   i. In one example, m and/or may depend on the precision for             BV/motion vector storage and/or the precision associated             with the block vector differences.         -   j. In one example, block vectors may be constrained in the             same range as motion vectors used for inter prediction mode.         -   k. In one example, block vector differences may be             constrained in the same range as motion vector vectors used             for inter prediction mode.         -   l. In one example, a conformance bitstream shall satisfy             that the above sub-bullet is satisfied.             -   i. Alternatively, a clipping process to the BV/BVD may                 be applied to decoded BV/BVD before BV/BVDs are utilized                 to encode/decode a block.     -   6. The number of available samples mapped to the IBC virtual         buffer may be restricted.         -   a. In one example, the maximum number of available samples             mapped to the buffer may be smaller than the IBC virtual             buffer size.         -   b. In one example, the maximum number of available samples             mapped to the IBC virtual buffer may be fixed when CTB/CTU             size is larger than 64×64.         -   c. In one example, the number of available samples mapped to             the IBC virtual buffer may be restricted to be smaller or             equal to one or multiple times of number of samples in a             VPDU.             -   i. In one example, the number of available samples                 mapped to the IBC virtual buffer may be restricted to be                 smaller or equal to three times of number of samples in                 a VPDU when CTU/CTB size is larger than 64×64.     -   7. The unavailability marking for IBC reference samples mapped         to the IBC virtual buffer may be performed in the granularity of         VPDU         -   a. In one example, when samples are needed to be marked as             unavailable, samples within the same VPDU may also be marked             as unavailable.         -   b. In one example, one or multiple VPDUs may be marked as             unavailable simultaneously.         -   c. In one example, which VPDU's samples are marked to             unavailable may depend on the position of the current VPDU.         -   d. In one example, which VPDU's samples are marked to             unavailable may depend on the position of the previous or             most recently decoded VPDU.     -   8. When CTU/CTB size is larger than 64×64, IBC reference may be         the current VPDU and the three most recently decoded VPDUs.         -   a. In one example, an index may be maintained for each VPDU             mapped to the virtual IBC buffer to track the decoding order             of each VPDU.     -   9. A counter may be maintained to track the number of available         VPDUs mapped to the buffer.         -   a. In one example, the counter is reset to 0 at beginning of             decoding each CTU row and increased by one when one VPDU             mapped to the buffer has been decoded.         -   b. In one example, when the counter is larger than a certain             value, e.g., 3, one VPDU's samples mapped to the buffer may             be marked as unavailable and the counter may be decreased by             1.     -   10. When CTU/CTB size is 128×128, the corresponding IBC virtual         buffer may be of size 256×128.         -   a. Alternatively, the IBC virtual buffer may be of size             (k*64)×128, where k>2.     -   11. When CTU/CTB size is 256×256, the corresponding IBC virtual         buffer may be of size 64×256 to track availability of reference         samples, i.e., ibcBufW=64, ibcBufH=256.         -   a. In one example, before decoding a VPDU with top-left             position (x0, y0), the corresponding VPDU row (0, y0%256) in             the IBC buffer will be set to −1.     -   12. When CTU/CTB size is 256×256, the corresponding IBC virtual         buffer may be of size 128×256 to track availability of reference         samples, i.e., ibcBufW=128, ibcBufH=256.         -   a. In one example, only one VPDU may be kept (excluding the             current VPDU) for each VPDU row in the buffer except for a             certain VPDU row.             -   i. In one example, only one VPDU may be kept (excluding                 the current VPDU) for each VPDU row in the buffer except                 for the last VPDU row.     -   13. IBC buffer may be not reset at the beginning of a CTU row.         -   a. In one example, the IBC virtual buffer inherited from the             above CTU row may be used as the initial state of the             current CTU row.         -   b. Alternatively, IBC virtual buffer may be partially reset             at the beginning of a CTU row.             -   i. In one example, a VPDU in the above CTU row may be                 inherited in the current IBC buffer while other buffer                 region may be reset.             -   ii. In one example, the most bottom-left VPDU of the                 above CTU row may be inherited in the current IBC buffer                 while other buffer region may be reset.     -   14. Whether and/or how to mark samples in the buffer as         unavailable may be independent of chroma block position.         -   a. In one example, only when a luma block is of the 1st             block in a VPDU, corresponding samples in the IBC buffer may             be marked as unavailable.         -   b. In one example, it may be disallow to reset or marked             samples in the buffer as unavailable when decoding a chroma             coding unit.     -   15. Whether and/or how to mark samples in the IBC virtual buffer         may depend on the most recently decoded VPDU's position and the         VPDU size.         -   a. In one example, whether and/or how to mark samples in the             IBC virtual buffer as unavailable may depend on the most             recently decoded VPDU's position a brick/slice/tile/picture.         -   b. In one example, whether and/or how to mark samples in the             IBC virtual buffer as unavailable may depend on the most             recently decoded VPDU's position in a CTU row of a             brick/slice/tile/picture.         -   c. In one example, what samples in the IBC virtual buffer to             be marked as unavailable may be independent of the current             block's position.

IBC Line Buffer Related

-   -   16. Block vector prediction crossing a CTU row may be disallowed         -   a. In one example, when a block vector prediction is from a             different CTU row compared to the current CTU row, it may be             considered as unavailable.     -   17. Deblocking decision for the current IBC blocks crossing a         CTU row may be independent of the other block's block vector or         motion vector.         -   a. In one example, when two blocks are of different CTU row             and one block is coded in IBC mode and the other is coded in             IBC or Inter mode, the deblocking boundary strength may be             always set equal to 1.         -   b. In one example, when two blocks are of different CTU row             and one block is coded in IBC mode and the other is coded in             IBC or Inter mode, the deblocking boundary strength may be             always set equal to 0.     -   18. Deblocking decision for the current IBC blocks crossing CTU         row may be independent of whether the other block is coded in         IBC mode or Inter mode.         -   a. In one example, when two blocks are of different CTU row             and one block is coded in IBC mode and the other is not             coded in Intra mode, the deblocking boundary strength may be             always set equal to 1.

Subpicture Related

-   -   19. It is proposed to allow predictions (e.g., motion/sample         prediction) among two subpictures under certain conditions.         -   a. In one example, if a boundary of a first subpicture             coincides with the picture boundary (or conformance window             boundary), it may be allowed to use information from a             second subpicture.             -   i. Alternatively, furthermore, the subpicture boundary                 is the left or right subpicture boundary.             -   ii. Alternatively, furthermore, the picture boundary is                 the left or right picture boundary.             -   iii. In one example, the left (or right) boundary of the                 second subpicture may coincide with the left (or right)                 boundary of the picture.         -   b. The condition is true only if picture wrapping is allowed             (e.g., sps_ref_wraparound_enabled_flag is equal to 1)     -   20. Picture wrapping excludes subpictures.         -   a. In one example, picture wrapping is enabled if             subpictures are used.         -   b. In one example, subpictures cannot be used if picture             wrapping is enabled.         -   c. Alternatively, picture wrapping may be enabled when             subpicture is used.             -   iv. In one example, picture wrapping may be enabled for                 a sub-picture which has a boundary coinciding with the                 picture boundary.

Chroma QP Table Related

-   -   21. The smallest index of chroma QP table may be independent to         the bit depth for chroma component.         -   a. In one example, the smallest index of chroma QP table may             depend on the bit depth of luma component.         -   b. In one example, the smallest index of chroma QP table may             be QpBdOffsety, i.e., 6*bit_depth_luma_minus8.

The examples described above may be incorporated in the context of the methods described below, e.g., method 400, which may be implemented at a video decoder or a video encoder.

FIG. 4A shows a flowchart of an exemplary method 400 for video processing. The method 400 includes, at step 402, making a decision, based on a size of a virtual buffer associated with a current block that is coded based on pixels in a reference block, regarding a validity of a block vector or one or more samples mapped to the virtual buffer, a current picture comprising the current block and the reference block, and the size of the virtual buffer being based on a size of a virtual pipeline data unit (VPDU), a size of a coding tree block (CTB) size or a size of a coding tree unit (CTU).

The method 400 includes, at step 404, performing, based on the decision, a conversion between the current block and a bitstream representation of the current block.

FIG. 4B shows a flowchart of an exemplary method 420 for video processing. The method 420 includes, at step 422, designating, for a current block that is coded based on pixels in a reference block, one or more reference samples of the reference block as unavailable, each of the one or more reference samples being mapped to a virtual buffer and having a corresponding sample in at least a current virtual pipeline data unit (VPDU) associated with the reference block, and a current picture comprising the current block and the reference block.

The method 420 includes, at step 424, performing, based on the designating, a conversion between the current block and a bitstream representation of the current block.

FIG. 4C shows a flowchart of an exemplary method 440 for video processing. The method 440 includes, at step 442, determining, for a current block that is coded based on pixels in a reference block, a size of a virtual buffer, associated with the reference block, based on a size of a coding tree block (CTB) or a size of a coding tree unit (CTU) of the current block, a current picture comprising the current block and the reference block.

The method 440 includes, at step 444, performing, based on the determining, a conversion between the current block and a bitstream representation of the current block.

5 Example Implementations of the Disclosed Technology 5.1 Embodiment #1

When CTU size is 256×256, a 64×256 IBC virtual buffer ibcBuf is maintained, i.e., ibcBufW=64, ibcBufH=256. VPDU size is 64×64 and beside the current VPDU, 3 additional VPDU's on-chip memory is used to store IBC reference samples.

The buffer ibcBuf is reset to −1 at the beginning of decoding a CTU row.

At the beginning decoding a new VPDU with top-left position (x0, y0) relative to the top-left corner of the picture, the following applies

-   -   1) For x=x0..x0+63, y=y0..y0+63, ibcBuf[x % ibcBufW][y %         ibcBufH]=−1     -   2) After decoding a CU, for (x, y) in that CU relative to the         top-left corner of the picture, set ibcBuf[x % ibcBufW] [y %         ibcBufH] as the reconstructed value of sample (x, y) before         in-loop filtering, e.g., SAO, deblocking, ALF.     -   3) Given a by, the reference for (x, y) is ibcBuf[(x+bv[0]) %         ibcBufW] [(y+bv[1]) % ibcBufH]

It is a bitstream constrain that the following two conditions shall be true

-   -   1) Given a W×H block with top-left position (x, y) relative the         top-left of the picture, (y % ibcBufH)+H<=ibcBufH     -   2) ibcBuf[(x+bv[0]) % ibcBufW][(y+bv[1]) % ibcBufH] shall not         contain invalid pixel value, e.g., −1, for x=0..W−1, y=0..,H−1

5.2 Embodiment #2

When CTU size is 256×256, a 128×256 IBC virtual buffer ibcBuf is maintained, i.e., ibcBufW=128, ibcBufH=256. VPDU size is 64×64 and beside the current VPDU, 3 additional VPDU's on-chip memory is used to store IBC reference samples.

The buffer ibcBuf is reset to −1 at the beginning of decoding a CTU row. xPrevVPDU=0 and yPrevVPDU=0.

At the beginning decoding a new VPDU with top-left position (x0, y0) relative to the top-left corner of the picture, the following applies

-   -   1) If (yPrevVPDU+64) % ibcBufH is not equal to 0,         -   for x=x0..x0+63, y=y0..y0+63, ibcBuf[(x+xPrevVPDU−64) %             ibcBufW][(y+yPrevVPDU) % ibcBufH]=−1     -   2) Otherwise ((yPrevVPDU+64) % ibcBufH is equal to 0),         -   for x=x0..x0+63, y=y0..y0+63,

ibcBuf[(x+xPrevVPDU) % ibcBufW][(y+yPrevVPDU) % ibcBufH]=−1

-   -   3) xPrevVPDU=x0 and yPrevVPDU=y0

It is a bitstream constrain that the following two conditions shall be true

-   -   1) Given a W×H block with top-left position (x, y) relative the         top-left of the picture, (y % ibcBufH)+H<=ibcBufH     -   2) ibcBuf[(x+bv[0]) % ibcBufW][(y+bv[1]) % ibcBufH] shall not         contain invalid pixel value, e.g., −1, for x=0..W−1,

5.3 Embodiment #3

This embodiment reflects bullet 2. Changes, marked in bold faced italics, are based on VVC draft 6 document JVET-O2001-vE.

log 2_min_luma_coding_block_size_minus2 plus 2 specifies the minimum luma coding block size.

The variables CtbLog 2SizeY, CtbSizeY, MinCbLog 2SizeY, MinCbSizeY, IbcBufWidthY, IbcBufWidthC and Vsize are derived as follows:

Ctb Log 2SizeY=log 2_ctu_size_minus5+5  (7-15)

CtbSizeY=1<<Ctb Log 2SizeY  (7-16)

MinCbLog 2SizeY=log 2_min_luma_coding_block_size_minus2+2  (7-17)

MinCbSizeY=1<<MinCbLog 2SizeY  (7-18)

IbcBufWidthY=128*128/CtbSizeY+CtbSizeY  (7-19)

IbcBufWidthC=IbcBufWidthY/SubWidthC  (7-20)

VSize=Min(64,CtbSizeY)  (7-21)

5.4 Embodiment #4

This embodiment reflects bullet 3.

Denote (xCb, yCb) as the top-left position of the current block relative to top-left of the picture. Block width and height are W and H respectively. Block vector for the block is (xBv, yBv)

Constrain of VPDU row relative to the picture:

It is a bitstream constrain that (xCb+xBv)/vSize shall be equal to (xCb+xBv+W−1/vSize).

Constrain of VPDU column relative to the picture:

It is a bitstream constrain that (yCb+yBv)/vSize shall be equal to (yCb+yBv+H−1/vSize).

Constrain of VPDU row relative to the IBC buffer:

It is a bitstream constrain that ((xCb+xBv) % IbcBufWidthY)/vSize shall be equal to (((xCb+xBv+W−1) % IbcBufWidthY)/vSize).

Constrain of VPDU column relative to the IBC buffer:

It is a bitstream constrain that ((yCb+yBv) % IbcBufHeightY)/vSize shall be equal to (((yCb+yB v+H−1) % IbcBufHeightY)/vSize).

5.5 Embodiment #5

This embodiment reflects that marking samples in the IBC virtual buffer as unavailable should be independent of chroma blocks.

The changes marked in bold and italic are based on JVET-02001-vE. Deleted texts are marked with double brackets (e.g., [[a]] denotes the deletion of the character “a”).

7.4.9.5 Coding Unit Semantics

When ResetIbcBuf is equal to 1, the following applies:

-   -   For x=0..IbcBufWidthY−1 and y=0..CtbSizeY−1, the following         assignments are made:

IbcVirBuf[0][x][y]=−1  (7-153)

-   -   The variable ResetIbcBuf is set equal to 0.         When x0% VSize is equal to 0 and y0% VSize is equal to 0 and         cIdx is equal to 0, the following assignments are made for         x=x0..x0+VSize−1 and y=y0..y0+VSize−1:

IbcVirBuf[0][x% IbcBufWidthY][y% CtbSizeY]=−1  (7-154)

5.6 Embodiment #6 7.4.9.5 Coding Unit Semantics

. . . When ResetIbcBuf is equal to 1, the following applies:

-   -   For x=0..IbcBufWidthY−1 and y=0..CtbSizeY−1, the following         assignments are made:

IbcVirBuf[0][x][y]=−1  (7-153)

-   -   -   xPrevV=0         -   yPrevV=0

    -   The variable ResetIbcBuf is set equal to 0.         When x0% VSize is equal to 0 and y0% VSize is equal to 0 and         cIdx is equal to 0, the following applies:         [[assignments are made for x=x0..x0 VSize−1 and y=y0..y0         VSize−1:]]

    -   If yPrevV % VSize is equal to 0, xP is set equal to         xPrevV−(CtbLog 2SizeY==7) ? 128:(−VSize), otherwise xP is set         equal to xPrevV−(CtbLog 2SizeY==7) ? 64:(−VSize).

    -   For x=xP..xP+max(VSize, cbWidth)−1 and y=yPrevV..         yPrevV+max(VSize, cbHeight)−1, the following assignment are made

IbcVirBuf[0][x% IbcBufWidthY][y% CtbSizeY]=−1  (7-154)

-   -   The variables xPrevV is set equal to (x0+cbWidth−1)/VSize*VSize         and yPrevV is set equal to (y0+cbHeight−1)/VSize*VSize.

5.7 Embodiment #7

This embodiment gives an example of allowing subpicture prediction. The changes compared to JVET-02001-vE are highlighted in bold and italic and deleted texts are marked with double brackets (e.g., [[a]] denotes the deletion of the character “a”).

8.5.6.3.3 Luma Integer Sample Fetching Process

Inputs to this process are:

-   -   a luma location in full-sample units (xInt_(L), yInt_(L)),     -   the luma reference sample array refPicLX_(L),         Output of this process is a predicted luma sample value         predSampleLXL         The variable shift is set equal to Max(2, 14−BitDepth_(Y)).         The variable picW is set equal to pic_width_in_luma_samples and         the variable picH is set equal to pic_height_in_luma_samples.         The luma locations in full-sample units (xInt, yInt) are derived         as follows:     -   If subpic_treated_as_pic_flag[SubPicIdx] is equal to 1, the         following applies:

xInt=Clip3(SubPicLeftBoundaryPos,SubPicRightBoundaryPos,sps_ref_wraparound_enabled_flag ?ClipH((sps_ref_wraparound_offset_minus1+1)*MinCbSizeY,picW,xIntL):xInt)  (8-782)

yInt=Clip3(SubPicTopBoundaryPos,SubPicBotBoundaryPos,yInt)  (8-782)

-   -   Otherwise:

xInt=Clip3(0,picW−1,sps_ref_wraparound_enabled_flag ?  (8-782)

ClipH((sps_ref_wraparound_offset_minus1+1)*MinCbSizeY,picW,xInt_(L)):xInt_(L))

yInt=Clip3(0,picH−1,yInt_(L))  (8-783)

The predicted luma sample value predSampleLX_(L) is derived as follows:

predSampleLX_(L)=refPicLX_(L) [xInt][yInt]<<shift3   (8-784)

5.8 Embodiment #8

This embodiment shows an exemplary design of chroma QP table. The changes, marked in bold and italic, are based on JVET-02001-vE.

7.4.3.3 Sequence Parameter Set RBSP Semantics

. . .

The i-th chroma QP mapping table ChromaQpTable[i] for i=0.. same_qp_table_for_chroma ? 0:2 is derived as follows:

qpInVal[ i ][ 0 ] = [[ 

 + delta_qp_in_val_minus1[ i ][ 0 ] qpOutVal[ i ][ 0 ] = −QpBdOffset_(C) + delta_qp_out_val[ i ][ 0 ] for( j = 1; j <= num_points_in_qp_table_minus1[ i ]; j++ ) {  qpInVal[ i ][ j ] = qpInVal[ i ][ j − 1 ] + delta_qp_in_val_minus1 [ i ][ j ] + 1  qpOutVal[ i ][ j ] = qpOutVal[ i ][ j − 1 ] + delta_qp_out_val[ i ][ j ] } ChromaQpTable[ i ][ qpInVal[ i ][ 0 ] ] = qpOutVal[ i ][ 0 ] for( k = qpInVal[ i ][ 0 ] − 1; k >= [[ 

 k − − )  ChromaQpTable[ i ][ k ] = Clip3( −QpBdOffset_(C), 63, ChromaQpTable[ i ][ k + 1 ] − 1 ) for( j = 0; j < num_points_in_qp_table_minus1[ i ]; j++ ) {  sh = ( delta_qp_in_val_minus1[ i ][j + 1 ] + 2 ) >> 1  for( k = qpInVal[ i ][ j ] + 1, m = 1; k <= qpInval[ i ][ j + 1 ]; k++, m++ )   ChromaQpTable[ i ][ k ] = ChromaQpTable[ i ][ qpInVal[ i ][ j ] ] +    ( delta_qp_out_val[ i ][j + 1] * m + sh ) / ( delta_qp_in_val_minus1[ i ][j + 1] + 1) } for( k = qpInVal[ i ][ num_points_in_qp_table_minus1[ i ] ] + 1; k <= 63; k++ )  ChromaQpTable[ i ][ k ] = Clip3( −QpBdOffset_(C), 63, ChromaQpTable[ i ][ k − 1 ] + 1 ) When same_qp_table_for_chroma is equal to 1, ChromaQpTable[1][k] and ChromaQpTable[2][k] are set equal to ChromaQpTable[0][k] for k=[[QpBdOffsetc]] QpBdOffsety..63. It is a requirement of bitstream conformance that the values of qpInVal[i][j] shall be in the range of −QpBdOffsety to 63, and qpOutVal[i][j] shall be in the range of −QpBdOffsetc to 63, inclusive for i=0..same_qp_table_for_chroma ? 0:2 and j=0..num_points_in_qp_table_minus1[i].

FIG. 6 shows examples of reference blocks crossing VPDU column and VPDU row. As shown in FIG. 6 , for a current CU (checked block 602), block filled in red (unpatterned block 604) is an crossing VPDU column reference block and block (diagonally striped block 606) is an crossing VPDU row reference block. Each large block indicates a 64×64 VPDU and area (608) indicated reconstructed pixels that can be used for IBC reference.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a video processing apparatus 500. The apparatus 500 may be used to implement one or more of the methods described herein. The apparatus 500 may be embodied in a smartphone, tablet, computer, Internet of Things (IoT) receiver, and so on. The apparatus 500 may include one or more processors 502, one or more memories 504 and video processing hardware 506. The processor(s) 502 may be configured to implement one or more methods (including, but not limited to, method 400) described in the present disclosure. The memory (memories) 504 may be used for storing data and code used for implementing the methods and techniques described herein. The video processing hardware 506 may be used to implement, in hardware circuitry, some techniques described in the present disclosure. In some embodiments, the hardware 506 may be partly or entirely within the processors 502, e.g., a graphics co-processor.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing an example video processing system 700 in which various techniques disclosed herein may be implemented. Various implementations may include some or all of the components of the system 700. The system 700 may include input 1902 for receiving video content. The video content may be received in a raw or uncompressed format, e.g., 8 or 10 bit multi-component pixel values, or may be in a compressed or encoded format. The input 702 may represent a network interface, a peripheral bus interface, or a storage interface. Examples of network interface include wired interfaces such as Ethernet, passive optical network (PON), etc. and wireless interfaces such as wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) or cellular interfaces.

The system 700 may include a coding component 704 that may implement the various coding or encoding methods described in the present disclosure. The coding component 704 may reduce the average bitrate of video from the input 702 to the output of the coding component 704 to produce a coded representation of the video. The coding techniques are therefore sometimes called video compression or video transcoding techniques. The output of the coding component 704 may be either stored, or transmitted via a communication connected, as represented by the component 706. The stored or communicated bitstream (or coded) representation of the video received at the input 702 may be used by the component 708 for generating pixel values or displayable video that is sent to a display interface 710. The process of generating user-viewable video from the bitstream representation is sometimes called video decompression. Furthermore, while certain video processing operations are referred to as “coding” operations or tools, it will be appreciated that the coding tools or operations are used at an encoder and corresponding decoding tools or operations that reverse the results of the coding will be performed by a decoder.

Examples of a peripheral bus interface or a display interface may include universal serial bus (USB) or high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) or Displayport, and so on. Examples of storage interfaces include serial advanced technology attachment (SATA), peripheral component interconnect (PCI), integrated drive electronics (IDE) interface, and the like. The techniques described in the present disclosure may be embodied in various electronic devices such as mobile phones, laptops, smartphones or other devices that are capable of performing digital data processing and/or video display.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram that illustrates an example video coding system 100 that may utilize the techniques of this disclosure.

As shown in FIG. 8 , video coding system 100 may include a source device 110 and a destination device 120. Source device 110 generates encoded video data which may be referred to as a video encoding device. Destination device 120 may decode the encoded video data generated by source device 110 which may be referred to as a video decoding device.

Source device 110 may include a video source 112, a video encoder 114, and an input/output (I/O) interface 116.

Video source 112 may include a source such as a video capture device, an interface to receive video data from a video content provider, and/or a computer graphics system for generating video data, or a combination of such sources. The video data may comprise one or more pictures. Video encoder 114 encodes the video data from video source 112 to generate a bitstream. The bitstream may include a sequence of bits that form a coded representation of the video data. The bitstream may include coded pictures and associated data. The coded picture is a coded representation of a picture. The associated data may include sequence parameter sets, picture parameter sets, and other syntax structures. I/O interface 116 may include a modulator/demodulator (modem) and/or a transmitter. The encoded video data may be transmitted directly to destination device 120 via I/O interface 116 through network 130 a. The encoded video data may also be stored onto a storage medium/server 130 b for access by destination device 120.

Destination device 120 may include an I/O interface 126, a video decoder 124, and a display device 122.

I/O interface 126 may include a receiver and/or a modem. I/O interface 126 may acquire encoded video data from the source device 110 or the storage medium/server 130 b. Video decoder 124 may decode the encoded video data. Display device 122 may display the decoded video data to a user. Display device 122 may be integrated with the destination device 120, or may be external to destination device 120 which be configured to interface with an external display device.

Video encoder 114 and video decoder 124 may operate according to a video compression standard, such as the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard and other current and/or further standards.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating an example of video encoder 200, which may be video encoder 114 in the system 100 illustrated in FIG. 8 .

Video encoder 200 may be configured to perform any or all of the techniques of this disclosure. In the example of FIG. 9 , video encoder 200 includes a plurality of functional components. The techniques described in this disclosure may be shared among the various components of video encoder 200. In some examples, a processor may be configured to perform any or all of the techniques described in this disclosure.

The functional components of video encoder 200 may include a partition unit 201, a prediction unit 202 which may include a mode select unit 203, a motion estimation unit 204, a motion compensation unit 205 and an intra prediction unit 206, a residual generation unit 207, a transform unit 208, a quantization unit 209, an inverse quantization unit 210, an inverse transform unit 211, a reconstruction unit 212, a buffer 213, and an entropy encoding unit 214.

In other examples, video encoder 200 may include more, fewer, or different functional components. In an example, prediction unit 202 may include an intra block copy (IBC) unit. The IBC unit may perform prediction in an IBC mode in which at least one reference picture is a picture where the current video block is located.

Furthermore, some components, such as motion estimation unit 204 and motion compensation unit 205 may be highly integrated, but are represented in the example of FIG. 5 separately for purposes of explanation.

Partition unit 201 may partition a picture into one or more video blocks. Video encoder 200 and video decoder 300 may support various video block sizes.

Mode select unit 203 may select one of the coding modes, intra or inter, e.g., based on error results, and provide the resulting intra- or inter-coded block to a residual generation unit 207 to generate residual block data and to a reconstruction unit 212 to reconstruct the encoded block for use as a reference picture. In some example, Mode select unit 203 may select a combination of intra and inter prediction (CIIP) mode in which the prediction is based on an inter prediction signal and an intra prediction signal. Mode select unit 203 may also select a resolution for a motion vector (e.g., a sub-pixel or integer pixel precision) for the block in the case of inter-prediction.

To perform inter prediction on a current video block, motion estimation unit 204 may generate motion information for the current video block by comparing one or more reference frames from buffer 213 to the current video block. Motion compensation unit 205 may determine a predicted video block for the current video block based on the motion information and decoded samples of pictures from buffer 213 other than the picture associated with the current video block.

Motion estimation unit 204 and motion compensation unit 205 may perform different operations for a current video block, for example, depending on whether the current video block is in an I slice, a P slice, or a B slice.

In some examples, motion estimation unit 204 may perform uni-directional prediction for the current video block, and motion estimation unit 204 may search reference pictures of list 0 or list 1 for a reference video block for the current video block. Motion estimation unit 204 may then generate a reference index that indicates the reference picture in list 0 or list 1 that contains the reference video block and a motion vector that indicates a spatial displacement between the current video block and the reference video block. Motion estimation unit 204 may output the reference index, a prediction direction indicator, and the motion vector as the motion information of the current video block. Motion compensation unit 205 may generate the predicted video block of the current block based on the reference video block indicated by the motion information of the current video block.

In other examples, motion estimation unit 204 may perform bi-directional prediction for the current video block, motion estimation unit 204 may search the reference pictures in list 0 for a reference video block for the current video block and may also search the reference pictures in list 1 for another reference video block for the current video block. Motion estimation unit 204 may then generate reference indexes that indicate the reference pictures in list 0 and list 1 containing the reference video blocks and motion vectors that indicate spatial displacements between the reference video blocks and the current video block. Motion estimation unit 204 may output the reference indexes and the motion vectors of the current video block as the motion information of the current video block. Motion compensation unit 205 may generate the predicted video block of the current video block based on the reference video blocks indicated by the motion information of the current video block.

In some examples, motion estimation unit 204 may output a full set of motion information for decoding processing of a decoder.

In some examples, motion estimation unit 204 may do not output a full set of motion information for the current video. Rather, motion estimation unit 204 may signal the motion information of the current video block with reference to the motion information of another video block. For example, motion estimation unit 204 may determine that the motion information of the current video block is sufficiently similar to the motion information of a neighboring video block.

In one example, motion estimation unit 204 may indicate, in a syntax structure associated with the current video block, a value that indicates to the video decoder 300 that the current video block has the same motion information as the another video block.

In another example, motion estimation unit 204 may identify, in a syntax structure associated with the current video block, another video block and a motion vector difference (MVD). The motion vector difference indicates a difference between the motion vector of the current video block and the motion vector of the indicated video block. The video decoder 300 may use the motion vector of the indicated video block and the motion vector difference to determine the motion vector of the current video block.

As discussed above, video encoder 200 may predictively signal the motion vector. Two examples of predictive signaling techniques that may be implemented by video encoder 200 include advanced motion vector prediction (AMVP) and merge mode signaling.

Intra prediction unit 206 may perform intra prediction on the current video block. When intra prediction unit 206 performs intra prediction on the current video block, intra prediction unit 206 may generate prediction data for the current video block based on decoded samples of other video blocks in the same picture. The prediction data for the current video block may include a predicted video block and various syntax elements.

Residual generation unit 207 may generate residual data for the current video block by subtracting (e.g., indicated by the minus sign) the predicted video block(s) of the current video block from the current video block. The residual data of the current video block may include residual video blocks that correspond to different sample components of the samples in the current video block.

In other examples, there may be no residual data for the current video block for the current video block, for example in a skip mode, and residual generation unit 207 may not perform the subtracting operation.

Transform processing unit 208 may generate one or more transform coefficient video blocks for the current video block by applying one or more transforms to a residual video block associated with the current video block.

After transform processing unit 208 generates a transform coefficient video block associated with the current video block, quantization unit 209 may quantize the transform coefficient video block associated with the current video block based on one or more quantization parameter (QP) values associated with the current video block.

Inverse quantization unit 210 and inverse transform unit 211 may apply inverse quantization and inverse transforms to the transform coefficient video block, respectively, to reconstruct a residual video block from the transform coefficient video block. Reconstruction unit 212 may add the reconstructed residual video block to corresponding samples from one or more predicted video blocks generated by the prediction unit 202 to produce a reconstructed video block associated with the current block for storage in the buffer 213.

After reconstruction unit 212 reconstructs the video block, loop filtering operation may be performed reduce video blocking artifacts in the video block.

Entropy encoding unit 214 may receive data from other functional components of the video encoder 200. When entropy encoding unit 214 receives the data, entropy encoding unit 214 may perform one or more entropy encoding operations to generate entropy encoded data and output a bitstream that includes the entropy encoded data.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating an example of video decoder 300 which may be video decoder 114 in the system 100 illustrated in FIG. 8 .

The video decoder 300 may be configured to perform any or all of the techniques of this disclosure. In the example of FIG. 10 , the video decoder 300 includes a plurality of functional components. The techniques described in this disclosure may be shared among the various components of the video decoder 300. In some examples, a processor may be configured to perform any or all of the techniques described in this disclosure.

In the example of FIG. 10 , video decoder 300 includes an entropy decoding unit 301, a motion compensation unit 302, an intra prediction unit 303, an inverse quantization unit 304, an inverse transformation unit 305, and a reconstruction unit 306 and a buffer 307. Video decoder 300 may, in some examples, perform a decoding pass generally reciprocal to the encoding pass described with respect to video encoder 200 (e.g., FIG. 9 ).

Entropy decoding unit 301 may retrieve an encoded bitstream. The encoded bitstream may include entropy coded video data (e.g., encoded blocks of video data). Entropy decoding unit 301 may decode the entropy coded video data, and from the entropy decoded video data, motion compensation unit 302 may determine motion information including motion vectors, motion vector precision, reference picture list indexes, and other motion information. Motion compensation unit 302 may, for example, determine such information by performing the AMVP and merge mode.

Motion compensation unit 302 may produce motion compensated blocks, possibly performing interpolation based on interpolation filters. Identifiers for interpolation filters to be used with sub-pixel precision may be included in the syntax elements.

Motion compensation unit 302 may use interpolation filters as used by video encoder 20 during encoding of the video block to calculate interpolated values for sub-integer pixels of a reference block. Motion compensation unit 302 may determine the interpolation filters used by video encoder 200 according to received syntax information and use the interpolation filters to produce predictive blocks.

Motion compensation unit 302 may uses some of the syntax information to determine sizes of blocks used to encode frame(s) and/or slice(s) of the encoded video sequence, partition information that describes how each macroblock of a picture of the encoded video sequence is partitioned, modes indicating how each partition is encoded, one or more reference frames (and reference frame lists) for each inter-encoded block, and other information to decode the encoded video sequence.

Intra prediction unit 303 may use intra prediction modes for example received in the bitstream to form a prediction block from spatially adjacent blocks. Inverse quantization unit 303 inverse quantizes, i.e., de-quantizes, the quantized video block coefficients provided in the bitstream and decoded by entropy decoding unit 301. Inverse transform unit 303 applies an inverse transform.

Reconstruction unit 306 may sum the residual blocks with the corresponding prediction blocks generated by motion compensation unit 202 or intra-prediction unit 303 to form decoded blocks. If desired, a deblocking filter may also be applied to filter the decoded blocks in order to remove blockiness artifacts. The decoded video blocks are then stored in buffer 307, which provides reference blocks for subsequent motion compensation.

Some embodiments of the disclosed technology include making a decision or determination to enable a video processing tool or mode. In an example, when the video processing tool or mode is enabled, the encoder will use or implement the tool or mode in the processing of a block of video, but may not necessarily modify the resulting bitstream based on the usage of the tool or mode. That is, a conversion from the block of video to the bitstream representation of the video will use the video processing tool or mode when it is enabled based on the decision or determination. In another example, when the video processing tool or mode is enabled, the decoder will process the bitstream with the knowledge that the bitstream has been modified based on the video processing tool or mode. That is, a conversion from the bitstream representation of the video to the block of video will be performed using the video processing tool or mode that was enabled based on the decision or determination.

Some embodiments of the disclosed technology include making a decision or determination to disable a video processing tool or mode. In an example, when the video processing tool or mode is disabled, the encoder will not use the tool or mode in the conversion of the block of video to the bitstream representation of the video. In another example, when the video processing tool or mode is disabled, the decoder will process the bitstream with the knowledge that the bitstream has not been modified using the video processing tool or mode that was disabled based on the decision or determination.

In the present disclosure, the term “video processing” may refer to video encoding, video decoding, video compression or video decompression. For example, video compression algorithms may be applied during conversion from pixel representation of a video to a corresponding bitstream representation or vice versa. The bitstream representation of a current video block may, for example, correspond to bits that are either co-located or spread in different places within the bitstream, as is defined by the syntax. For example, a macroblock may be encoded in terms of transformed and coded error residual values and also using bits in headers and other fields in the bitstream.

The following listing provides embodiments that can addressed the technical problems described in the present disclosure, among other problems. The first set of clauses describe certain features and aspects of the disclosed techniques in the previous section.

1. A method for video processing, comprising: making a decision, based on a size of a virtual buffer associated with a current block that is coded based on pixels in a reference block, regarding a validity of a block vector or one or more samples mapped to the virtual buffer, wherein a current picture comprises the current block and the reference block, and wherein the size of the virtual buffer is based on a size of a virtual pipeline data unit (VPDU), a size of a coding tree block (CTB) size or a size of a coding tree unit (CTU); and performing, based on the decision, a conversion between the current block and a bitstream representation of the current block.

2. The method of clause 1, wherein a product of a height and a width of the virtual buffer is fixed, and wherein the height or the width is based on the size of the VPDU, the size of the CTB or the size of the CTU.

3. The method of clause 1, wherein a width of the virtual buffer is equal to a width of the CTB or a width of the CTU.

4. The method of clause 1, wherein a width or a height of the virtual buffer is N times a width or a height of the VPDU, respectively, and wherein N>1 is an integer.

5. The method of clause 1, wherein a maximum number of the one or more samples is less than the size of the virtual buffer.

6. The method of clause 1, wherein a maximum number of the one or more samples is fixed upon a determination that the size of the CTB or the size of the CTU is larger than 64×64.

7. The method of clause 1, wherein a number of the one or more samples is less than or equal to N times a number of samples in the VPDU, and wherein N>1 is an integer.

8. The method of clause 7, wherein N=3 upon a determination that the size of the CTB or the size of the CTU is larger than 64×64.

9. A method for video processing, comprising: designating, for a current block that is coded based on pixels in a reference block, one or more reference samples of the reference block as unavailable, wherein each of the one or more reference samples is mapped to a virtual buffer and has a corresponding sample in at least a current virtual pipeline data unit (VPDU) associated with the reference block, and wherein a current picture comprises the current block and the reference block; and performing, based on the designating, a conversion between the current block and a bitstream representation of the current block.

10. The method of clause 9, further comprising: designating the corresponding sample in the current VPDU as unavailable.

11. The method of clause 10, wherein the designating the corresponding sample is based on a position of the current VPDU.

12. The method of clause 10, wherein the designating the corresponding sample is based on a position of a previous VPDU or a recently decoded VPDU.

13. The method of clause 9, wherein each of the one or more reference samples has a corresponding sample in each of three most recently decoded VPDUs.

14. A method for video processing, comprising: determining, for a current block that is coded based on pixels in a reference block, a size of a virtual buffer, associated with the reference block, based on a size of a coding tree block (CTB) or a size of a coding tree unit (CTU) of the current block, wherein a current picture comprises the current block and the reference block; and performing, based on the determining, a conversion between the current block and a bitstream representation of the current block.

15. The method of clause 14, wherein the size of the virtual buffer is 256×128 upon a determination that the size of the CTB or the CTU is 128×128.

16. The method of clause 14, wherein the size of the virtual buffer is 64×256 upon a determination that the size of the CTB or the CTU is 256×256.

17. The method of clause 14, wherein the size of the virtual buffer is 128×256 upon a determination that the size of the CTB or the CTU is 256×256.

18. The method of any of clauses 1 to 17, wherein coding the current block based on the pixels in the reference block in the current picture that comprises the current block is an intra block copy (IBC) operation, and wherein the virtual buffer is an IBC virtual buffer.

19. A method of video processing, comprising: allocating, for a conversion between a bitstream representation of a current block of video and the current block, an intra block coding (IBC) virtual buffer size that is greater than a minimum size of a block vector search area for the conversion; and performing the conversion based on the allocating.

20. The method of clause 19, wherein the IBC buffer size is larger than a total size of a virtual pipeline data unit memory used for the conversion.

21. The method of any of clauses 19-20, wherein a width of the IBC virtual buffer size is (128*128/ctbSizeY+ctbSizeY).

22. A method of video processing, comprising: determining, for a conversion between a bitstream representation of a current block of video and the current block, a size of a reference block for the conversion based on an intra block prediction coding based on a rule; and performing the conversion based on the determining; wherein the rule constrains the reference block to be within a virtual pipeline data unit (VPDU) column or a virtual pipeline data unit row.

23. The method of clause 22, wherein the rule disallows the reference block to be across different VPDU rows.

24. The method of clause 22, wherein the rule disallows the reference block to be across different VPDU columns.

25. The method of any of clauses 22-24, wherein the VPDU column or the VPDU row are relative to a picture that contains the current block.

26. The method of any of clauses 22-24, wherein the VPDU column or the VPDU row are relative to in intra block copy virtual buffer.

27. The method of any of clauses 1-26, wherein the conversion comprises video coding to generate the bitstream representation from the current block.

28. The method of any of clauses 1-26, wherein the conversion comprises video decoding to generate the current block from the bitstream representation.

29. An apparatus in a video system comprising a processor and a non-transitory memory with instructions thereon, wherein the instructions upon execution by the processor, cause the processor to implement the method in any one of clauses 1 to 28.

30. A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer readable media, the computer program product including program code for carrying out the method in any one of clauses 1 to 28.

31. A method, apparatus or system described herein.

The second set of clauses describe certain features and aspects of the disclosed techniques in the previous section (for example, example items 13 to 21).

1. A method for video processing (e.g., method 1110 shown in FIG. 11A), comprising: determining 1112, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, whether or how to reset reference sample values of a reference region of the video picture used for predicting the current video block according to a rule; and performing 1114 the conversion based on the determining.

2. The method of clause 1, wherein the rule specifies that the reference sample values of the reference region are not reset at a beginning of a coding tree unit (CTU) row of the video picture.

3. The method of clause 1, wherein the reference region inherited from an above CTU row that is above a current CTU row is used as an initial state of the current CTU row of the video picture.

4. The method of clause 1, wherein the rule specifies that the reference sample values of the reference region are partially rest at a beginning of a coding tree unit (CTU) row of the video picture.

5. The method of clause 4, wherein the rule further specifies that a virtual pipeline data unit (VPDU) of an above CTU row that is located above the CTU row is inherited in the reference region and that a remaining reference region is reset.

6. The method of clause 4, wherein the rule further specifies that a most bottom-left virtual pipeline data unit (VPDU) of an above CTU row located above the CTU row is inherited in the reference region and that a remaining reference region is reset.

7. A method for video processing (e.g., method 1120 shown in FIG. 11B), comprising: determining 1122, for a conversion between a current video region of a video picture of a video comprising a luma block and corresponding one or more chroma blocks and a coded representation of the video, whether and/or how to mark one or more reference samples of a reference region of the video picture used for predicting the current video region as unavailable based on a rule that is independent of a position of the one or more chroma blocks; and performing 1124 the conversion based on the determining.

8. The method of clause 7, wherein the rule specifies to mark the one or more corresponding samples in the reference region as unavailable only in case that the luma block is a first block in a current virtual pipeline data unit (VPDU).

9. The method of clause 7, wherein the rule specifies that, while processing the one or more chroma blocks during the conversion, resetting or marking of the one or more reference samples of the reference region as being unavailable is disallowed.

10. A method for video processing (e.g., method 1130 shown in FIG. 11C), comprising: determining 1132, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, whether and/or how to mark one or more reference samples of a reference region of the video picture used for predicting the current video block based on a rule that is dependent on a position of a most recently processed virtual pipeline data unit (VPDU) and a size of a VPDU; and performing 1134 the conversion based on the determining.

11. The method of clause 10, wherein the rule specifies that whether and/or how to mark the one or more reference samples of the reference region as unavailable depends on the position of the most recently decoded VPDU in a brick, slice, tile, or picture of the video.

12. The method of clause 10, wherein the rule specifies that whether and/or how to mark the one or more reference samples of the reference region as unavailable depends on the position of the most recently decoded VPDU in a coding tree unit (CTU) row of a brick, slice, tile, or a picture of the video.

13. The method of clause 10, wherein the rule specifies that the one or more reference samples of the reference block to be marked are determined independently of a position of the current video block.

14. A method of video processing (e.g., method 1140 shown in FIG. 11D), comprising: determining 1142, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, a constraint on a block vector that is used for predicting the current video block according to a rule; and performing 1144 the conversion based on the determining, wherein the block vector indicates a displacement between the current video block and a reference region in the video picture used for predictively coding the current video block, and wherein the rule specifies that the block vector crossing a coding tree unit (CTU) row of the video picture is disallowed.

15. The method of clause 14, wherein the rule further specifies that the block vector from another CTU row different from the CTU row is not applied for the predicting of the current video block.

16. A method for video processing (e.g., method 1150 shown in FIG. 11E), comprising: making 1152 a decision, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, based on a rule, whether to apply a deblocking filter to at least some samples of an edge of the current video block with another block across a coding tree unit (CTU) row of the video picture; and performing 1154 the conversion based on the determining; wherein the current video block is coded using an intra block copy (IBC) mode in which a prediction of the current video block is derived based on sample values from a video slice of the current video block.

17. The method of clause 16, wherein the rule specifies that, due to use of the IBC mode for coding the current video block, the decision is independent of a motion vector corresponding to the another block and/or a coding mode of the another block.

18. The method of clause 17, wherein the rule specifies that a deblocking boundary strength is always set to 1 in case 1) that the current video block and the another block are of different CTU rows and 2) that the another video block is coded in the IBC mode or an inter mode.

19. The method of clause 17, wherein the rule specifies that a deblocking boundary strength is always set to 0 in case 1) that the current video block and the another block are of different CTU rows and 2) that the another video block is coded in the IBC mode or an inter mode.

20. The method of clause 16, wherein the rule specifies that the decision is independent of whether the another block is coded using the IBC mode or an inter mode.

21. The method of clause 20, wherein the rule specifies that a deblocking boundary strength is always set to 1 in case that the current video block and the another block are of different CTU rows and 2) that the another block is not coded in the inter mode.

22. A method for video processing (e.g., method 1160 as shown in FIG. 11F), comprising: determining 1162, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, an applicability of a subpicture prediction to generate a prediction block for the current video block using at least one of a first subpicture or a second subpicture of the video picture according to a rule; and performing 1164 the conversion based on the determining.

23. The method of clause 22, wherein the rule specifies to allow to use information from the second subpicture of the video in case that a boundary of the first subpicture coincides with a boundary of the video picture.

24. The method of clause 23, wherein the boundary of the first subpicture is a left or a right boundary of the first subpicture.

25. The method of clause 23, wherein the boundary of the video picture is a left or a right boundary of the vide picture.

26. The method of clause 24, wherein a left or right boundary of the second subpicture coincides with a left or right boundary of the video picture.

27. The method of clause 22, wherein the rule specifies that the subpicture prediction is applied only in case that a picture wrapping is allowed.

28. The method of clause 27, wherein the coded representation includes a syntax element, sps_ref_wraparound_enabled_flag, which is equal to 1.

29. The method of clause 22, wherein the rule further specifies that a picture wrapping excludes the first subpicture and the second subpicture.

30. The method of clause 29, wherein the rule further specifies that the first picture and the second picture are not used if the picture wrapping is enabled.

31. The method of clause 22, wherein the rule further specifies that a picture wrapping is enabled in case that at least one of the first subpicture or the second subpicture are used.

32. The method of clause 31, wherein the rule further specifies that the picture wrapping is enabled for the at least one of the first subpicture or the second subpicture that has a boundary coinciding with a boundary of the video picture.

33. A method of video processing (e.g., method 1170 as shown in FIG. 11G), comprising: performing 1172 a conversion between a current video block of a chroma component of a video and a coded representation of the video according to a rule, wherein the rule specifies that a smallest index of a chroma quantization parameter (QP) table used for the conversion is independent of a bit depth of samples of the chroma component.

34. The method of clause 33, wherein the rule specifies that the smallest index of the chroma QP table depends on a bit depth of samples of a luma component of the video.

35. The method of clause 33, wherein the rule specifies that the smallest index of the chroma QP table is QpBdOffsety that is equal to a value of 6*bit_depth_luma_minus8, whereby bit_depth_luma_minus8 indicates a bit depth of a sample of a luma array, BitDepthY.

36. The method of any of clauses 1 to 35, wherein the conversion includes encoding the video into the coded representation.

37. The method of any of clauses 1 to 35, wherein the conversion includes decoding the coded representation to generate the video.

38. A video processing apparatus comprising a processor configured to implement a method recited in any one or more of clauses 1 to 37.

39. A computer readable medium storing program code that, when executed, causes a processor to implement a method recited in any one or more of clauses 1 to 37.

40. A computer readable medium that stores a coded representation or a bitstream representation generated according to any of the above described methods.

From the foregoing, it will be appreciated that specific embodiments of the presently disclosed technology have been described herein for purposes of illustration, but that various modifications may be made without deviating from the scope of the invention. Accordingly, the presently disclosed technology is not limited except as by the appended claims.

Implementations of the subject matter and the functional operations described in the present disclosure can be implemented in various systems, digital electronic circuitry, or in computer software, firmware, or hardware, including the structures disclosed in this specification and their structural equivalents, or in combinations of one or more of them. Implementations of the subject matter described in this specification can be implemented as one or more computer program products, i.e., one or more modules of computer program instructions encoded on a tangible and non-transitory computer readable medium for execution by, or to control the operation of, data processing apparatus. The computer readable medium can be a machine-readable storage device, a machine-readable storage substrate, a memory device, a composition of matter effecting a machine-readable propagated signal, or a combination of one or more of them. The term “data processing unit” or “data processing apparatus” encompasses all apparatus, devices, and machines for processing data, including by way of example a programmable processor, a computer, or multiple processors or computers. The apparatus can include, in addition to hardware, code that creates an execution environment for the computer program in question, e.g., code that constitutes processor firmware, a protocol stack, a database management system, an operating system, or a combination of one or more of them.

A computer program (also known as a program, software, software application, script, or code) can be written in any form of programming language, including compiled or interpreted languages, and it can be deployed in any form, including as a stand-alone program or as a module, component, subroutine, or other unit suitable for use in a computing environment. A computer program does not necessarily correspond to a file in a file system. A program can be stored in a portion of a file that holds other programs or data (e.g., one or more scripts stored in a markup language document), in a single file dedicated to the program in question, or in multiple coordinated files (e.g., files that store one or more modules, sub programs, or portions of code). A computer program can be deployed to be executed on one computer or on multiple computers that are located at one site or distributed across multiple sites and interconnected by a communication network.

The processes and logic flows described in this specification can be performed by one or more programmable processors executing one or more computer programs to perform functions by operating on input data and generating output. The processes and logic flows can also be performed by, and apparatus can also be implemented as, special purpose logic circuitry, e.g., a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

Processors suitable for the execution of a computer program include, by way of example, both general and special purpose microprocessors, and any one or more processors of any kind of digital computer. Generally, a processor will receive instructions and data from a read only memory or a random access memory or both. The essential elements of a computer are a processor for performing instructions and one or more memory devices for storing instructions and data. Generally, a computer will also include, or be operatively coupled to receive data from or transfer data to, or both, one or more mass storage devices for storing data, e.g., magnetic, magneto optical disks, or optical disks. However, a computer need not have such devices. Computer readable media suitable for storing computer program instructions and data include all forms of nonvolatile memory, media and memory devices, including by way of example semiconductor memory devices, e.g., erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), and flash memory devices. The processor and the memory can be supplemented by, or incorporated in, special purpose logic circuitry.

It is intended that the specification, together with the drawings, be considered exemplary only, where exemplary means an example. As used herein, the use of “or” is intended to include “and/or”, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

While the present disclosure contains many specifics, these should not be construed as limitations on the scope of any invention or of what may be claimed, but rather as descriptions of features that may be specific to particular embodiments of particular inventions. Certain features that are described in the present disclosure in the context of separate embodiments can also be implemented in combination in a single embodiment. Conversely, various features that are described in the context of a single embodiment can also be implemented in multiple embodiments separately or in any suitable subcombination. Moreover, although features may be described above as acting in certain combinations and even initially claimed as such, one or more features from a claimed combination can in some cases be excised from the combination, and the claimed combination may be directed to a subcombination or variation of a subcombination.

Similarly, while operations are depicted in the drawings in a particular order, this should not be understood as requiring that such operations be performed in the particular order shown or in sequential order, or that all illustrated operations be performed, to achieve desirable results. Moreover, the separation of various system components in the embodiments described in the present disclosure should not be understood as requiring such separation in all embodiments.

Only a few implementations and examples are described and other implementations, enhancements and variations can be made based on what is described and illustrated in the present disclosure. 

What is claimed is:
 1. A method of processing video data, comprising: determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a bitstream of the video, that a prediction mode is applied to derive prediction samples of the current video block; maintaining, for the prediction mode, a virtual buffer comprising one or more reference samples derived from reconstructed blocks of the video picture; and performing the conversion based on the determining, wherein in the prediction mode, reference samples determined by a block vector in the virtual buffer are used for the derivation of the prediction samples, wherein when the virtual buffer is a luma buffer, a marking of unavailable reference samples is applied to the virtual buffer, and wherein in the marking of unavailable reference samples, a set of the reference samples in the virtual buffer are marked unavailable, and positions of the unavailable reference samples in the virtual buffer are determined based on positions of the current video block.
 2. The method of claim 1, wherein when the virtual buffer is a chroma buffer, the marking of unavailable reference samples is not applied to the virtual buffer.
 3. The method of claim 1, wherein when the current video block is a first luma block in a virtual unit and the virtual buffer is the luma buffer, the reference samples in the virtual buffer corresponding to the virtual unit are marked unavailable.
 4. The method of claim 1, wherein when a size of a virtual unit is greater or equal to a width of the current video block and is greater or equal to a height of the current video block and the virtual buffer is the luma buffer, the reference samples in the virtual buffer corresponding to the virtual unit are marked unavailable, and wherein the size of the virtual unit is equal to min(ctbSize, 64), where ctbSize denotes a width or a height of a coding tree block of the video picture.
 5. The method of claim 1, wherein when a size of a virtual unit is less than a width of the current video block and is less than a height of the current video block and the virtual buffer is the luma buffer, the reference samples in the virtual buffer corresponding to the current video block are marked unavailable, and wherein the size of the virtual unit is equal to min(ctbSize, 64), where ctbSize denotes a width or a height of a coding tree block of the video picture.
 6. The method of claim 1, wherein when a variable is set to indicate resetting the virtual buffer and the virtual buffer is the luma buffer, the virtual buffer is reset, and wherein when the virtual buffer is a chroma buffer, the virtual buffer is disallowed to be reset.
 7. The method of claim 6, wherein when the virtual buffer is reset, the reference samples in the virtual buffer are reset to be −1.
 8. The method of claim 1, wherein the unavailable reference samples have a value of −1.
 9. The method of claim 1, wherein the conversion comprises encoding the current video block into the bitstream.
 10. The method of claim 1, wherein the conversion comprises decoding the current video block from the bitstream.
 11. An apparatus for processing video data comprising a processor and a non-transitory memory with instructions thereon, wherein the instructions upon execution by the processor, cause the processor to: determine, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a bitstream of the video, that a prediction mode is applied to derive prediction samples of the current video block; maintain, for the prediction mode, a virtual buffer comprising one or more reference samples derived from reconstructed blocks of the video picture; and perform the conversion based on the determination, wherein in the prediction mode, reference samples determined by a block vector in the virtual buffer are used for the derivation of the prediction samples, wherein when the virtual buffer is a luma buffer, a marking of unavailable reference samples is applied to the virtual buffer, and wherein in the marking of unavailable reference samples, a set of the reference samples in the virtual buffer are marked unavailable, and positions of the unavailable reference samples in the virtual buffer are determined based on positions of the current video block.
 12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein when the virtual buffer is a chroma buffer, the marking of unavailable reference samples is not applied to the virtual buffer.
 13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein when the current video block is a first luma block in a virtual unit and the virtual buffer is the luma buffer, the reference samples in the virtual buffer corresponding to the virtual unit are marked unavailable.
 14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein when a size of a virtual unit is greater or equal to a width of the current video block and is greater or equal to a height of the current video block and the virtual buffer is the luma buffer, the reference samples in the virtual buffer corresponding to the virtual unit are marked unavailable, and wherein the size of the virtual unit is equal to min(ctbSize, 64), where ctbSize denotes a width or a height of a coding tree block of the video picture; or wherein when a size of the virtual unit is less than a width of the current video block and is less than a height of the current video block and the virtual buffer is the luma buffer, the reference samples in the virtual buffer corresponding to the current video block are marked unavailable, and wherein the size of the virtual unit is equal to min(ctbSize, 64), where ctbSize denotes a width or a height of the coding tree block of the video picture.
 15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that cause a processor to: determine, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a bitstream of the video, that a prediction mode is applied to derive prediction samples of the current video block; maintain, for the prediction mode, a virtual buffer comprising one or more reference samples derived from reconstructed blocks of the video picture; and perform the conversion based on the determination, wherein in the prediction mode, reference samples determined by a block vector in the virtual buffer are used for the derivation of the prediction samples, wherein when the virtual buffer is a luma buffer, a marking of unavailable reference samples is applied to the virtual buffer, and wherein in the marking of unavailable reference samples, a set of the reference samples in the virtual buffer are marked unavailable, and positions of the unavailable reference samples in the virtual buffer are determined based on positions of the current video block.
 16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein when the virtual buffer is a chroma buffer, the marking of unavailable reference samples is not applied to the virtual buffer.
 17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein when the current video block is a first luma block in a virtual unit and the virtual buffer is the luma buffer, the reference samples in the virtual buffer corresponding to the virtual unit are marked unavailable.
 18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein when a size of a virtual unit is greater or equal to a width of the current video block and is greater or equal to a height of the current video block and the virtual buffer is the luma buffer, the reference samples in the virtual buffer corresponding to the virtual unit are marked unavailable, and wherein the size of the virtual unit is equal to min(ctbSize, 64), where ctbSize denotes a width or a height of a coding tree block of the video picture.
 19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein when a size of a virtual unit is less than a width of the current video block and is less than a height of the current video block and the virtual buffer is the luma buffer, the reference samples in the virtual buffer corresponding to the current video block are marked unavailable, and wherein the size of the virtual unit is equal to min(ctbSize, 64), where ctbSize denotes a width or a height of a coding tree block of the video picture.
 20. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a bitstream of a video which is generated by a method performed by a video processing apparatus, wherein the method comprises: determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of the video and the bitstream of the video, that a prediction mode is applied to derive prediction samples of the current video block; maintaining, for the prediction mode, a virtual buffer comprising one or more reference samples derived from reconstructed blocks of the video picture; and generating the bitstream based on the determining, wherein in the prediction mode, reference samples determined by a block vector in the virtual buffer are used for the derivation of the prediction samples, wherein when the virtual buffer is a luma buffer, a marking of unavailable reference samples is applied to the virtual buffer, and wherein in the marking of unavailable reference samples, a set of the reference samples in the virtual buffer are marked unavailable, and positions of the unavailable reference samples in the virtual buffer are determined based on positions of the current video block. 